9 reasons why the highline sucks
June 11th, 2009 link to (permalink)
The Highline is fashionable in every sense. A park inspired by one in Paris, a combination of Euro chic, treehugging sanctity and hipster industrial grunge.But it sits above ground, shovels people off the streets via stairs which cyclists can't use and leads from nowhere to nowhere. In addition, little money ha been spend on the dark spaces underneath, which could easily negate any benefit provided above.The designers involved are great and there are nice touches, but could it have been better just to have torn it down and created something at street level. Such talk is heresy, but here are 9 reasons why we are disbelievers.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
With the joint application of google and wikipedia, I discovered that “the highline” is a park being built on a disused elevated railway in New York. The article made no attempt to tell me this, which comes across as a pretentious assumption that all oobject readers are apparently New Yorkers. This alienates and annoys international audiences, and probably poor souls in less awesome parts of the USA, too.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:25 am
So perhaps the headline should have read. 9 reasons why the highline, which is a park being built on a disused elevated railway in New York, sucks? I don’t think so.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:41 am
The writer of this article does not live in Nw York. The writer also does not live in the USA. Because the Highline is one of the world’s most famous landscape architecture projects, it has an appeal outside New York.